Hey There Delilah (Plain White T’s) – 2006

In 2007, you could hardly go anywhere without hearing this song. Despite sounding like a sweet tribute to a long-distance lover, Delilah never actually dated the Plain White T’s frontman. Although Tom Higgenson revealed that the long-distance relationship he wrote about did not exist, he did admit that he wrote the song to impress Delilah.

In the song, a girl and a boy in a long-distance relationship talk about their future plans—she’ll finish and he’ll be a rock star. After meeting Delilah, Higgenson worked on the song for six months. It seems he needed the time to make up the rest of the story.